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      The Woman With the 5 Elephants

      Released Jul 20, 2011 1h 33m Documentary List
      91% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 93% Audience Score 250+ Ratings After dedicating her life to translating the great works of Russian literature into German, Svetlana Geier returns to Kiev for the first time in 56 years to translate the works of Dostoyevsky. Read More Read Less

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      Joe Neumaier New York Daily News Perhaps this was just a matter of a great mind feeling as if her life spoke for itself. Rated: 1/5 Jul 22, 2011 Full Review Mark Jenkins NPR Quietly astonishing. Jul 21, 2011 Full Review Noel Murray AV Club Jendreyko has clearly considered how best to translate an entire life into a movie. Rated: B+ Jul 20, 2011 Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Transcends the documentary form and attains its own sort of artfulness - a quiet and lyrical study of a truly remarkable human being. Rated: 3/4 Aug 5, 2019 Full Review Christopher Long Movie Metropolis Literary Translators Gone Wild! Rated: 6/10 May 1, 2012 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A no-nonsense intelligently engaging biopic documentary. Rated: A- Mar 4, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member I'd never heard of her before this movie, but I enjoyed getting to know her and her great accomplishments through this documentary. I don't think many people could've lived through what she did and come out with such a great sense of humor. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member An elegant and lyrical documentary about renowned translator Svetlana Geier, who has dedicated her life to translating Russian literature into German, more specifically, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Geier, who lived an extraordinary life, coming of age during WWII in the Ukraine and Germany, has both a keen mastery and unique appreciation of the beauty of language, which the film evokes with great beauty. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis After dedicating her life to translating the great works of Russian literature into German, Svetlana Geier returns to Kiev for the first time in 56 years to translate the works of Dostoyevsky.
      Director
      Vadim Jendreyko
      Screenwriter
      Vadim Jendreyko
      Distributor
      Cinema Guild
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      German
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 20, 2011, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 13, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 33m
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